What is it?

GNUstep (this is a live CD, an operating system, a distribution) contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X). It includes an excellent application called Gorm for RAD (Apple Software Design Guidelines). More about the Objective-C Language. More on OPENSTEP and GNUstep. Why? The currently used window manager is Window Maker. Read this very informative article about what GNUstep is.

If you are an OPENSTEP, Cocoa developer and want to port your software to GNUstep and release it as Free Software, contact me. Here is a very nice introduction to the environment. More what is questions answered. Still not impressed, read this? Read great documentation. Hopefully soon with a microkernel and a more usable approach to OS design. History about the Lighthouse Design Ltd..

List of all packages on the CD.

Quote of the Booz-Allen Study

• took 100+ senior programmers and trained them on NeXTstep, then asked them to write the same app on both NeXT and their previous system.
• First application written was written 2 - 5 times faster.
• Savings were 90%
• 83% less lines of code in the NEXTstep version
• 82% said NeXTstep was better in ALL categories
• It isn't faster to code on NeXTstep; you just have to write less of it. The revolution is "getting rid of software".

Savoy 1992, Booz-Allen

More about GNUstep GNUstep is a free software implementation of the OpenStep specification (NeXT/SUN, 1994). Why you want GNUstep Cookbook GNUstep - the ultimate development environment Independent of X11 | FAQ | Objective-C | Articles on NeXTSTEP "One could say that GNUstep is a very nice woman, but without proper make-up and with a shabby dress. Although the expert eye could see the star sparkle, the average person maybe would prefer a more normal female with choosen make-up and dress." GNUstep demo (9:30 min) mpeg What does it look like? Screenshots | CD case | CD cover Screenshots of OPENSTEP Screenshots of NEXTSTEP Scans from a NeXT magazine Press, Media, Magazines Linux User, March 2004 (german) Linux Magazin, July 2004 (german) Linux Magazin, September 2004 (german) page 1, page 2 Linux Magazin, October 2004 (italian) Slashdot, February 2005 (english) Planete Beranger 25 January 2007, 26 January 2007 (english) Order a GNUSTEP CD World, US$ 1.95 Switzerland, CHF 99.00 Europe and North America, EUR 4.95 Report bugs Please report bugs to me if they are related to this GNUSTEP CD. Otherwise use the bug reporting facility of the appropriate project, which would either be Debian, GNUstep, or FreeBSD. A GNUSTEP Banner

Download Department of Physics, ETHZ (CH) | ISO Axel Beckert (DE) | ISO If you want your mirror here, contact me Burn the ISO image After you downloaded the image check the integrity using this command md5sum GNUSTEP-i486-1.8.iso. If it matches the checksum in GNUSTEP-i486-1.8.md5.txt proceed with burning it. Here is an example command to burn it cdrecord -v speed=8 -dao dev=0,0,0 -data GNUSTEP-i486-1.8.iso. Translations, Language setting Select the language from the desktop context menu GNUSTEP Release History 15 Apr 2008, 1.8 (with powerpc for Apple Mac) 08 Apr 2008, 1.8 (GRUB bootloader) 03 Apr 2008, 1.6 (with AMD64) 06 Nov 2006, 1.0 11 Feb 2005, 0.9.4.2 04 Feb 2005, 0.9.4 05 Jun 2004, 0.5 25 Feb 2004, 0.2 Install GNUstep On Debian or Ubuntu apt-get install gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games wdm menu On FreeBSD cd /usr/ports && make -C install deskutils/gworkspace They have a section for GNUstep. On Microsoft Windows Download the installer or try the Cocotron Install GNUSTEP on your Computer install.txt

There was a lot of software.

Here are a few screenshots of OPENSTEP applicationes. SUN Microsystems bought the Lighthouse Design Applications who made some great office software. Help free old (read mature) and excellent commercial OPENSTEP software from the vaults of SUN.COM. You should talk to Curtis Sasaki. I wish you'll have success, there was this petition. SUN's statement. Politics at SUN were kinda a step backwards for OPENSTEP but GNUstep is coming. SUN and Java failed because it is bad technology, OPENSTEP failed because managers failed at SUN. IBM has Lotus Improv.

Thanks

Denis Bodor (GNUstep background image) | GNUstep developers | GNU | RMS | Debian GNUstep team | Debian Live Project | Lea Mathe (background picture)

Links

HelpCenter | collaboration-world | Wiki | Forum | The WorldWideWeb Browser

Sponsor this Project / Contribute

This project is in need of money. Please donate $ or € 50, 100 or an own amount of your choice. You can donate money directly to this bank account Aargauische Kantonalbank, CH-5200 Brugg, Switzerland, Account: 50-587-7. The money is used for development of software based on GNUstep by contract. The main goal is to get usable Free Software useful for the masses, specifically a recreation of the Lighthouse Design Applications.

Features

Software using GNUstep (Addresses, Adun, Affiche, BioCocoa, Camaelon, Camera, Charmap, Cenon, Cynthiune, EdenMath, Emacs on GNUstep, GNUstep Database Library 2 (EOF, Enterprise Objects Framework), Gridlock, Gorm, Gomoku, GNUMail, GNUstep-icons, GNUWash, GWorkspace, Grouch, GTAMS, ImageViewer, LapisPuzzle, Ladder, LaTeX Service, LuserNET, Lynkeos, Mines, MPDCon, Paje, ProjectCenter, PRICE, Poe, ProjectManager, Preferences, PlopFolio, Preview, Renaissance, RSS Reader, Scheme, Shisen, StepTalk, TalkSoup, TimeMon, Terminal, TextEdit, ViewPDF, Zillion, Zipper)

System restore, administrator, and network tools (foremost, driftnet, flashrom, zoo, randomize-lines, superiotool, htop, moreutils, unmass, memtester, lzma, file, mc, hddtemp, qtparted, dosbox)

Multimedia, audio, graphics and video software (enblend, fontforge, hugin, motion, potrace, evolvotron, gimp, graphviz, gifsicle, mm3d, mplayer, wings3d, blender, gmt, goattracker, schism, opencubicplayer, timidity, freecycle, xmp, gnuplot, MilkyTracker)

Games (Powder, sauerbraten-server, bubbros, mazeofgalious)

In development and not yet on the CD (Hex Fiend, AgentFarms, AutoGraf, Bean, BaseFinder, Catakig, CocoaBasic, CocoaFIBS, CouchPotato, DigiBux, Duncan, Expense, EdenGraph, FlexiSheet, FlightTrack, Genome-based Peptide Fingerprint Scanning, GNUstepWeb (WebObjects 4.x), gnuspeech, ILogin, Java Interface to GNUstep, MathArray, MiscKit, NoteBook, OsiriX, Pixen, Popup, Position, PhotoClip, RailML Editor (Open Track), Ruby Interface to GNUstep, SlideShow, Smultron, SokoSave, TeXShop, WebKit)

License

The software on this CD as well as the whole content is Free Software. This policy is firm and if you find anything on the CD that is non-free, please contact me. I will then promptly remove it.